7 Days Coffee or Tea or Flower Agrotour Profile

Coffee was first introduced in Kenya by the Scottish Mission in the year 1893 in Kibwezi area. Coffee did well in Kibwezi but did much better in the Central highlands when it was introduced in 1896 due to the climatic conditions. The coffees from Africa are the most distinctive because the coffee growing areas are blessed with right altitude, soil conditions and temperatures. Hence varieties from these regions offer splendid acidity, good body and excellent flavors.

Kenya is a major producer of the best tea in the world. It has more than 110,000 hectares of land under tea. Tea is grown in the highlands where there is adequate rainfall and low temperatures.

Day 1: Arrive/Nairobi

Pick up from the airport upon arrival and transfer to your hotel. You spend the day at leisure to recover from jet lag.

Day 2: Visit Coffee Farm

After breakfast pick up from the hotel and drive 30km East of Nairobi to Thika Coffee Millers. Here you will spend the day learning about coffee from visiting the farm, factory where coffee is shelled and dried and to the mills where it is milled and packed. You will also have a chance of tasting different types of coffee.
Return to Nairobi for overnight.

Day 3: Nairobi/Nyeri

Departing Nairobi in the morning, you drive to the central highlands and spend the day at Mboi Farm day learning about coffee and tea farming. Upon arrival, you are welcomed with a cup of morning tea/coffee and snacks. After familiarization with the host and a brief orientation of the farm, you begin your tour with a visit to the cowsheds. Here you can try out your hand at milking and feeding fodder to the cows.

After milking, you enter the coffee farm. Guests will see where some of the world’s finest coffee comes from and how it is grown. Later at the farmhouse, you can participate in grading, roasting and grinding some of this coffee for use in the farm (Kahawa chungu). From the coffee farm, you head to the tea section.

Along the way, you pass by the Muratina tree which was used to make traditional Kikuyu brew. You will see how the brew was made with honey or sugar cane sap and when the host is not looking, you can steal a sip and know how it tastes. You will also pass by the Kikuyu traditional hut which will take you back in time to an era before the first European explorer had set foot in Africa.

Upon arrival at the tea farm, we get straight to work by putting on the picking basket (Kigara). You will be taught how it is picked. Picking makes all the difference and it gives Kenyan tea its famed taste of quality. The average tea picker makes about 20 kilos in a day. After lunch, you can plant a tree at the farm and then head off for a stroll into a local village, if time allows. You then proceed to a lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 4: Nyeri/Lake Nakuru

After breakfast, you head south to Lake Nakuru and spend the day game viewing in the park, where you will have a chance to visit a unique sanctuary catering for a sizeable number of the endangered rhinoceros and the Rothschild giraffe. Waterbucks as well as the predators such as the lion and leopard are common at the park. Also to be seen is a myriad different variety of birdlife in and around the lake with approximately 400 bird species recorded.
Meals and overnight at lodge.

Day 5: Nakuru/Naivasha

After breakfast, you depart for Lake Naivasha region and spend the morning visiting Hell’s Gate National park, one of Kenya's smaller national parks. You may explore the park on foot or hire bicycles [at an extra cost] and ride amid gracefully grazing gazelles and the larger antelopes, a delightful experience. Dinner and overnight ata lodge.

Day 6: Naivasha

After breakfast, you spend the day visiting one of the flower farms in the Lake region that specializes in growing roses for the export market. Here you will experience firsthand, the farm operation, grading and packing.
Drop off at the for dinner and overnight.

Day 7: Naivasha/Nairobi (Tea excursion)

After breakfast, you depart for Nairobi, enroute Kiambethu tea farm on the outskirts of Nairobi for a memorable excursion that includes a superb lunchtime buffet, visit to indigenous forest and insight into the growing and making tea.
Return to Nairobi in the late afternoon. Drop off at your hotel.